James A. Marks

James A. "Spider" Marks was a Major-General in the US Army and a CNN military analyst.

Biography
James A. Marks graduated from West Point in 1975, from the University of Virginia in 1985, and from the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in 1990. Marks spent over 30 years in the US Army, holding every command position from infantry platoon leader to commanding general. He was the senior intelligence officer for Joint Task Force Los Angeles during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and served as a strategist on the personal staff of the Chief of Staff of the Army. He later served as the senior intelligence officer in the Balkans and South Korea and as the senior intelligence officer for the Coalition during the Iraq War. He culminated his career as the Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and he later served as the President and CEO of Global Linguist Solutions (a private company that provided linguistics services to the US military in Iraq). He became an on-air national security, military, and intelligence contributor to CNN and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.